04 December 2006
U.S. Copyright Office issues new rights - Yahoo! News
by jlesage
Film professors can copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations.
26 November 2006
media teacher's home page, lots of resouces, links pages
by jlesage
"news and journalism, film, TV, media policy, media reform activism, philosophy and social theory, urban history, contemporary American politics--\perspective informed by media history, political economy and social and cultural theory."
MIT communications forum archive
by jlesage
the various programs are on many topics of media and mass communications; available in audio, video, or print format; good overview of contemporary media issues by academics and practitioners
20 November 2006
Local consumption cultures in a globalizing world by Peter Jackson
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Focusing on the resilience of distinctive local consumption cultures, with evidence from three contrasting consumption cultures: consumption and 'public culture' in India, 'consumer nationalism' in China, and 'artful consumption' in Russia.
Geographies of Responsibility by Doreen Massey
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on political implications of considering space within political discussions of responsibility and identity
13 November 2006
Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular
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"multiple contours of daily life in an unevenly digital era... how technology shapes, transforms, reconfigures, and/or impedes social relations...including issues of globalization, mobility, power, and access"
11 November 2006
A People's History Of The United States - Howard Zinn | libcom.org
by jlesage
entire text of this major left history is online
Howie's Home Page
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homepage and access to many of Howard Becker's essays online; major figure in sociology of art
The Imperial Archive
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influence of the British imperial process on literature from the 19th through the 21st centuries; deals with specific areas of the world that were former colonies
06 November 2006
archive : s0metim3s | Undercommons 2.0 | October | 2006
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Andrew Ross: “Technology and Below-the-Line Labor in the Copyfight over Intellectual Property” (American Quarterly, 58:3, 2006).
howstuffismade.org
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visual encyclopedia that documents manufacturing processes, labor conditions and environmental impacts involved in the production of contemporary products.--summative photo essays produced by students guided by faculty
Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space by Neil Smith
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entire book by major left social geographer available in three downloads
The geopolitics of knowledge and the colonial difference
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by Walter Mignolo; "'modernity' is not a strictly European but a planetary phenomenon to which the "excluded barbarians" have contributed, although their contribution has not been acknowledged."
03 November 2006
"Flaubert's Point of View" by Pierre Bourdieu
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complete text of long essay; Flaubert was a touchstone for Bourdieu in establishing the concept of the field of cultural production
02 November 2006
Loïc Wacquant
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site of sociologist who was often a co-author with Pierre Bourdieu; many links to full text essays online.
01 November 2006
The Art of Rent by David Harvey, SR 2002 | Socialist Register
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"a widespread belief that there is something special about certain cultural products and events (be they in the arts, theatre, music, cinema, architecture or more broadly in localized ways of life, heritage, collective memories and affective communities).
24 October 2006
Fast Capitalism ejournal
by jlesage
interdisciplinary journal on information and communication in 21st cent. economy and culture; good authors; focus on new media
23 October 2006
Mute magazine-"Time, Labour & Social Domination"
by jlesage
long review by Moishe Postone; in-depth analysis of contemporary theories of non-material labor in information field
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